Rabbi Brandt Lecture 2013:
The Language of Hostility Towards Jews

Lecture by Monika Schwarz-Friesel

11 November 2013

The annual lectures of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation honor Rabbi Dr. h.c. Henry G. Brandt for his impetuses in interreligious dialog. The language and cognitive scientist Professor Monika Schwarz-Friesel talks about the passing on and perpetuating of anti-Jewish stereotypes and resentments. Even today’s speech reflects phrases that were used in the Middle Ages and that during the Nazi era belonged to the standard repertoire of verbal discrimination against Jews.

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Professor Monika Schwarz-Friesel is a language and cognitive scientist and has headed the Department of General Linguistics at the Technical University of Berlin since 2010. Her research interests include current verbal anti-Semitism.

A cooperation with the German Coordination Council of the Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (DKR).